Detecting inserted floppy drive WAS: Raymond Check discusses MS DOS Floppy Disk Cache

[Ali]

Just wondering if anyone (Chuck, Fred?) knows what is the exact technique referred to in this other post by Raymond?

devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20090402-00/?p=18643

-Ali



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> How did MS-DOS decide that two seconds was the amount of time to keep
> the floppy disk cache valid?
> 
> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190924-00/?p=102915